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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Birching was usually used as a punishment for male juveniles and was administered immediately after court ruling in most cases. A form of punishment common in the nineteenth century which continued into at least the early twentieth.
Dark wooden table type bench with four legs.
Birching bench which offenders would lean on to receive lashings from the birch whip
Formerly part of Gwent Police Museum collection
